e bound to hate them.'

"'Why, so, sir, may I ask,' said I.

"'Why so--why because--because--they--because as--aren't they Papists,
and is not that sufficient--and, again, here's another reason still
stronger, aren't we Orangemen? Now, sir, did you, or any one, even hear
of such a thing as a good, sound Orangeman loving a Papist--a bloody
Papist. My word and honor, but that's good!'

"'The truth is,' said the father, 'that the turbulence of their
principles has the country almost ripe for insurrection. I have myself
received above half a dozen notices, and my son there, as many; some
threatening life, others property, and I suppose the result will be,
that I must reside for safety in the metropolis. My house is this moment
in a state of barricade--look at my windows, literally checkered with
stancheon bars--and as for arms, let me see, we have six blunderbusses,
eight cases of pistols, four muskets, two carbines, with a variety of
side arms, amounting to a couple of dozen. Such, sir, is the state of
the country, owing, certainly, as my son says, to the spirit of Popery,
and to the fact of my discharging my duty toward Lord Cumber with
fidelity and firmness!

"'In that case,' I observed, 'there is little to induce any man
possessing some property to reside here.'

"'Certainly nothing,' he replied, 'but a great many inducements to get
out of it.'

"'Does Lord Cumber ever visit his property here?' I asked.

"'He has too much sense,' returned the agent; 'but now that parliament
is dissolved, he will come over to the Election. We must return either
him or his brother the Hon. Dick Topertoe, who, I understand, has no
fixed principles whatsoever.'

"'But why return such a man? Why not put up and support one of your own
way of thinking?'

"'Why, because in the first place, we must keep out Hartley, who is
a liberal, and also an advocate for emancipating Popery; and, in the
second, if it be bad to have no principles, like Topertoe, it is worse
to have bad ones like Hartley. He'll do to stop a gap until we get
better, and then unless he comes round, we'll send him adrift.'

"'Is he in Ireland? I mean does he reside in the country?'

"'Not he, sir; it seems he's a wayward devil, very different from the
rest of the family--and with none of the dash and spirit of the Topertoe
blood in him.'

"'In that case, he will be no great loss; but Mr. M'Clutchy,
notwithstanding all you have said I am so much charmed with the bea